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Econometric Analysis of Games 1
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RecapAim: provide an introduction to incomplete models and partialidentification in the context of discrete games
1. Coherence & Completeness
2. Basic Framework
3. Pooling Outcomes
4. Large Support
5. Partial Identification
6. Adding Structure
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Recap
I Last lecture discussed the rank and order conditions thatcharacterise when linear simultaneous systems are pointidentified.
I This week, we will review identification results in theeconometric analysis of discrete games, which are alsosimultaneous systems
I The existence of multiple equilibria results in additionalidentification issues
I After discussing games of complete information, we willreturn to multiplicity in the context of social interactions
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Completeness & CoherenceI Structural model: a set of structural equations and a
distribution between observed and unobservedexplanatory variables specified by an economic theory
h(y ,X , ε) = 0 (1)
with ε ∈ Ω
I The model is coherent if for each ε ∈ Ω there exists atleast one value of y that satisfies the structural equations
I The model is complete if for each ε ∈ Ω there exists atmost one value of y that satisfies the structural equations
I With a complete and coherent model, a unique reducedform is guaranteed
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Completeness & Coherence
I Incoherent and incomplete models can arise insimultaneous systems
I We start with a simple abstract example, and then willconsider these issues in the context of an entry game
I Consider the following simultaneous system
y1 = I(y2 + ε1 ≥ 0)
y2 = θy1 + ε2(2)
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Completeness & Coherence
I We have that
y1 = I(θy1 + ε1 + ε2 ≥ 0) (3)
I With unrestricted errors, the model is incomplete: let−θ ≤ ε1 + ε2 < 0:
y1 = I(θy1 + ε1 + ε2 ≥ 0)
ε1 + ε2 0→ y1 = 0θ + ε1 + ε2 ≥ 0→ y1 = 1
(4)
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Completeness & Coherence
I With unrestricted errors, the model is incoherent: let0 ≤ ε1 + ε2 < −θ:
y1 = I(θy1 + ε1 + ε2 ≥ 0)
ε1 + ε2 ≥ 0→ y1 6= 0θ + ε1 + ε2 < 0→ y1 6= 1
(5)
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Outline
1. Coherence & Completeness
2. Basic Framework
3. Pooling Outcomes
4. Large Support
5. Partial Identification
6. Adding Structure
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Entry Games
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Entry Games
I Large literature on the estimation on binary games in theempirical IO set-up
I How to measure the competitiveness of a market and thetoughness of competition?
I Bresnahan & Reiss (1991): don’t need toprice/quantity/cost data but can infer from information onequilibrium market structure
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Entry Games: Data
I A firm’s decision to enter depends on its profit, whichdepends on whether the other firm entered the market
I Let profits be given by:
πi = xiβ +4iyj + εi (6)
for i = 1,2
I The distribution of ε ≡ (ε1, ε2) is given by (known) F , withmean normalised to zero and variances to 1
I Start by assuming complete information: realisations of xand ε observed by all players
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Entry Games: Data
I Similar set-up to Ciliberto & Tamer’s (2009) analysis of theairline industry
I Each market is a particular route, the firms being differentairlines
I xi gives the various market and firm specific variables thataffect demand (e.g. population size, income &c) and costsfor firms
I Linearity relaxed in some specifications, but additiveseparability of observables and unobservables typicallyassumed
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Payoff Matrix
y?i = xiβ +4iyj + εi
yi = I(y?i ≥ 0)(7)
Player 20 1
Player 1 0 0, 0 0, x2β2 + ε21 x1β1 + ε1, 0 x1β1 +41 + ε1, x2β2 +42 + ε2
I Nash equilibrium concept
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Payoff Matrix: 4i < 0
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Incomplete
I For certain values of the error term, the model predicts twopossible solutions
I Absent a rule for equilibrium selection, the model isincomplete — cannot write down uniquely determinedlikelihood function because we cannot assign separateprobabilities to (0,1) and (1,0)
I Structural parameters often under-identified from entrydata
I An equilibrium selection mechanism, λ, specifies whichequilibria is selected with which probability
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Incomplete
I How can we deal with this?
I Find a coarser unique prediction — e.g. focus on number ofentrants — useful in a symmetric world but doesn’t alwayswork (Bresnahan and Reiss, 1991; Berry, 1992)
I Exclusion & large support assumptions (Tamer, 2003)
I Complete the model by assuming an equilibrium selectionrule or impose more structure on the game to obtain aunique equilibrium
I Sacrifice point estimates and only find bounds onparameters
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Outline
1. Coherence & Completeness
2. Basic Framework
3. Pooling Outcomes
4. Large Support
5. Partial Identification
6. Adding Structure
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Pooling Multiple Equilibria Outcomes
I A common strategy taken is to aggregate the monopolyoutcomes
I Transform model from one that explains each entrantsstrategy to one that predicts the number of entrants:N = 0,1,2
I Essentially turns the problem into an ordered discretechoice model
I Multiplicity not necessarily an impediment to analysis —here some quantities of interest are invariant acrossequilibria
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Pooling Multiple Equilibria Outcomes
I Likelihood function would then include the probabilitystatements
Pr(N = 0|x) = Pr(x1β1 + ε1 < 0, x2β2 + ε2)
= Fε1,ε2(−x1β1,−x2β2)
Pr(N = 2|x) = Pr(x1β1 +41 + ε1 < 0, x2β2 +42 + ε2)
= Fε1,ε2(−x1β1,−x2β2)
Pr(N = 1|x) = 1− Pr(N = 0|x)− Pr(N = 2|x)(8)
I Joint distribution of 4i determines the specific functionalform for these probability statements
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Pooling Multiple Equilibria Outcomes
I However, lose information about firm heterogeneitiesunless firms are symmetric
I We then have
Pr(N = 0|x) = Pr(ε1 < −xβ)
Pr(N = 1|x) = Pr(−xβ < ε < −xβ −4)
Pr(N = 2|x) = Pr(−xβ −4 < ε)
(9)
I With ε ∼ N(0,1) we get a very simple ordered probit model
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Pooling Multiple Equilibria Outcomes
I While convenient, this strategy imposes strong restrictionson firm level heterogeneity
I Typically want to allow for firms to asymmetric impacts onone another
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Outline
1. Coherence & Completeness
2. Basic Framework
3. Pooling Outcomes
4. Large Support
5. Partial Identification
6. Adding Structure
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Large Support
I Uses similar ideas to those we have discussed in thecontext of special regressors and identification ofsimultaneous systems
I Intuition: find a regressor for which the actions of all butone player are dictated by dominant strategies — turn theproblem into a discrete choice problem by the single agentwho does not play dominant strategies
I For i = 1 or i = 2, there exists a regressor with βik 6= 0 thatis excluded from the other firm’s covariates and haseverywhere positive density
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Large Support
I Point identification of (β1, β2,41,42) then guaranteed if x1and x2 have full column rank
I Can find extreme values fo xik such that only uniqueequilibria in pure strategies are realised, e.g. asx1k → −∞:
Pr(ε1 < −x1β)→ 1Pr(ε1 < −x1 −41β)→ 1
(10)
I Let x?2 be such that:
x?2β2 6= x?2 b2 (11)
which is guaranteed by the full rank condition on x2
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Large Support
I We then have that, as x1k →∞
Pr ((0,0)|x) = Pr(ε1 < −x1β1, ε2 < −x?2β2)
≈ Pr(ε2 < −x?2β2)
6≈ Pr(ε2 < −x?2 b2)
(12)
which implies that β2 is identified
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Large SupportI Let x?1 be such that:
x?1β1 6= x?1 b1 (13)
which is guaranteed by the full rank condition on x1
I We then have that
Pr ((0,0)|x) = Pr(ε1 < −x?1β1, ε2 < −x2β2)
6= Pr(ε1 < −x?1 b1, ε2 < −x2β2)(14)
which implies that β1 is identified
I Could also introduce a separate large support regressorfor firm 2
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Identification at Infinity
I This strategy is often called identification at infinity —using independent variation in one regressor while drivinganother to take extreme values on its support identifies theparameters
I Used in many different applications — Heckman (1990) &c
I However, note that there are important implications forinference: this will lead to asymptotic convergence ratesthat are slower than parametric rates as the sample size(i.e. number of games) increases (see Kahn & Tamer(2010); Bajari et al (2011))
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Outline
1. Coherence & Completeness
2. Basic Framework
3. Pooling Outcomes
4. Large Support
5. Partial Identification
6. Adding Structure
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Partial Identification
I Typically covariates’ support is not rich enough to admit astrategy based on Tamer (2003)
I Can instead rely on partial information and use bounds forestimation — while a model may not make exactpredictions, it may still meaningfully restrict the range ofpossible outcomes
I Advocated by, e.g., Manski (1995)
I These results can be useful for testing particularhypotheses or illustrating the range of possible outcomes
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Partial Identification
I Given that the model is incomplete, the probability ofoutcome (0,1) and (1,0) cannot be written as a function ofthe structural parameters
I The model instead provides upper and lower bounds onthese probabilities
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≥ PL,01(β,4)
= Pr(ε1 < −x1β1,−x2β2 < ε2)
+ Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 −42 < ε2)(15)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≥ PL,01(β,4)
= Pr(ε1 < −x1β1,−x2β2 < ε2)
+ Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 −42 < ε2)(16)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≥ PL,01(β,4)
= Pr(ε1 < −x1β1,−x2β2 < ε2)
+ Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 −42 < ε2)(17)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≥ PL,01(β,4)
= Pr(ε1 < −x1β1,−x2β2 < ε2)
+ Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 −42 < ε2)(18)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≥ PL,01(β,4)
= Pr(ε1 < −x1β1,−x2β2 < ε2)
+ Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 −42 < ε2)(19)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≤ PU,01(β,4)
= Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 < ε2 < −x2β2 −42
)+ PL,01
(20)
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Bounds
Pr((0,1)|x) ≤ PU,01(β,4)
= Pr(−x1β1 ≤ ε1 < −x1β1 −41,−x2β2 < ε2 < −x2β2 −42
)+ PL,01
(21)
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Partial Identification
I Can derive similar expressions for the probabilities of otheroutcomes
I The information about the parameters can then berepresented as:
PL,00(θ)PL,01(θ)PL,10(θ)PL,11(θ)
≤
Pr((0,0)|x)Pr((0,1)|x)Pr((1,0)|x)Pr((1,1)|x)
≤
PU,00(θ)PU,01(θ)PU,10(θ)PU,11(θ)
(22)
I The identified set, ΘI , is the set of all parameters thatsatisfy these inequalities
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Example: Ciliberto & Tamer (2009)
I Interested in measuring competitive pressures in the airlineindustry, i.e. the impact on profit of a firm entering aparticular market
I Want to allow for heterogeneity across firms — i.e. theentry decision of American Airlines has a different effect onthe profit of its competitors than the entry of a low costairline
I Some important policy questions regards rules on airportpresence on number of routes served &c
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Example: Ciliberto & Tamer (2009)I Each observation is a route served between two airports
I Cross section study and thus assume firms are in long runequilibrium
I Firm profit function given by:
y?im = Smαi + Zimβi + Wimγi +∑j 6=i
θij yjm +
∑j 6=i
Zjmθij yjm + εim
(23)
I S is a vector of common market characteristicsI Z is a matrix of firm characteristics that enter into the profit
functions of all firmsI W are firm specific characteristics such as cost variables
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I Have the (more complicated!) set of moment equalities PL,1(θ)...
PL,2N (θ)
≤ Pr(y1|x)
...Pr(y2N |x)
≤
PU,1(θ)...
PU,2N (θ)
(24)
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I The estimator uses the following objective function
Q(θ) =
∫ [|| (Pr(y |X )− PL(X , θ))− ||
+|| (Pr(y |X )− PH(X , θ))+ ||]
dFx
(25)
where
(A)− =
a11(a1 ≤ 0)...
a2N 1(a2N ≤ 0)
(26)
and (A+) defined similarly
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I Note that Q(θ) ≥ 0 and Q(θ) = 0 iff θ ∈ ΘI
I To estimate ΘI , take the sample analog of Q(·)
QN(θ) =1N
∑m
[|| (Pn(Xm)− PL(Xm, θ))− ||
+|| (Pn(Xm)− PH(Xm, θ))+ ||] (27)
where Pn(Xm) can be estimated non-parametrically and PLand PH are computed via simulation
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I Unless the number of firms is very small, the upper andlower bound probabilities do not have a convenient closedform
I Common problem with more complicated models:likelihood or moment inequalities do not have a closedform that can adapt standard Maximum Likelihood or GMMmethods for
I Proceed by simulation: calculate an upper and lowerbound for each equilibrium probability for every X for aparticular guess of the parameter values
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Simulation ProcedureI 1. Draw R simulations of the firm unobservables, εr —
these draws and stored and held fixed throughout theoptimisation procedure
I NB can allow for correlation in these draws if each firm’sdraw is random normal by transforming the error termsusing the Cholesky Decomposition of the covariance matrix
I 2. For a given X , a particular draw of the error term, εr andan initial guess of the parameter vector, θ, calculate thevector of firm’s profits for a particular set of entry decisions,y j
I 3. If each firm is earning non-negative profits, then theoutcome y j is an equilibrium
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I 4. If this equilibrium is unique (for no other y j is it true thatall firms profits are positive), then add 1
R to the lower andupper bound for this outcome
I 5. If this equilibrium is not unique, then add 1R to the upper
bound only
I 6. Repeat steps 1-5 for each Xm and εr , r = 1, ...,R
I 7. Calculate the objective simulation estimates of PL andPH
I 8. Repeat steps 1-7 as search for the value of θ thatminimises QN
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Data
I 2001 Airline Origin and Destination Survey
I Markets defined as trips between airports — data setincludes 2742 marets
I Focus on American, Delta, United, Southwest, ‘Medium’Airlines and Low Cost Carriers
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Results Summary
I Heterogeneity in profit functions
I Competitive effects of large and low-cost airlines aredifferent
I Competitive effects of an airline increasing in its airportpresence
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Conclusion
I To finish, note that many other economic models withsimilar structures
I (Especially!) with strategic interactions, need to consider ifyour model is complete and consider the implications foridentification
I Identification can be achieved through a number ofstrategies; which one is preferable will depend on thecontext and data to hand
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